Airplanes, cats, guns, war, the more than occasional rant about the kleptocracy of President Spanky and his party of treason, the spinelessness of the Democraps and ramblings about anything else that flits through the somewhat offbeat mind of an armed lesbian pinko as she slides down the Razor Blade of Life.Caveat lector.

Words of Advice:

"Never Feel Sorry For Anyone Who Owns an Airplane."-- Tina Marie

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

"Flying the Airplane is More Important than Radioing Your Plight to a Person on the GroundWho is Incapable of Understanding or Doing Anything About It." -- Unknown

"There seems to be almost no problem that Congress cannot, by diligent efforts and careful legislative drafting, make ten times worse." -- Me

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

That was fairly common when I was a kid, for a doctor would feel something or an x-ray would render a fuzzy image of something. The only way to be certain was to cut the patient open and look. Depending what was found, a bit of exploration could immediately turn into a major life-altering procedure.

But now, with CAT scans and PET scans and MRIs and ultrasounds, the doctors have a pretty good idea of what's there.

"Suspended" as in "I'm here in case you need to draft me to run." That would require a brokered convention, which hasn't happened within the GOP in 68 years. And it would likely guarantee that either The Donald would run a third party campaign or a lot of the GOP base would sit on their hands, seeing a candidate of the party's elite as just another stab in the back.

The first judge "retired" after sentencing that Young Asshat to probation after he killed four people. Hopefully, the next judge will be a little more resistant to the arguments of Asshat's lawyers. For his family has the money for the best.

His mom might be in a little more trouble than Asshat is. Tango sierra.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

This is the packaging for one of those portable power supplies for recharging smartphones:

This is a note on the lower edge of the package:

What sort of an imbecile would assume that an iPhone would come free with such a gizmo?

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Now, this one is a little bit disturbing: A car done up in a "SpongeBob SquarePants" motif:

One has to wonder about the sort of person who would so decorate a car. Are they a doting parent to a child who isn't exactly firing on all cylinders? That's the best scenario that I can envision. The others, well, range from the owner being a little bit strange to wondering if Chester the Molester has gotten himself a new ride.

If you have one, you probably should charge it only when you're there to supervise it and not leave it plugged in. A better idea is to package it up and return it or, if you can't, regift it to your mortal enemy.

The Death Spiral is when a business begins losing revenue and so, to make it up, they raise prices. Which almost inevitably means that they lose some customers and thereby lose even more revenue. So prices go up and the spiral tightens.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Comcast now hands out Internet routers with wireless built in. What they don't mention, at least not prominently, is that your router will be a public hotspot for all Comcast users. So if you live near a public place, your home system will be host to lord-knows how many people.

If you have a Comcast wireless router, it might be a good idea to go to the Google and look up how to shut that shit off. Unless you like the idea of paying Comcast for the privilege of operating a public hotspot for those assholes.

Graham could have loaded all of his supporters into a single Budd car and still had empty seats.

Which is sad, in a way. Other than being part of the neocon warmonger caucus, Graham had some interesting ideas. But being somewhat rational and having intelligent ideas cuts no ice with GOP primary voters these days.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Almost all of the GOP candidates want to establish a no-fly zone (NFZ) over Syria, except Rafael Cruz, Rand Paul and The Donald. Hillary Clinton also wants to establish one.

They are all idiots.

Syria is, like or not, a sovereign nation. The United States has no legal authority to proclaim a NFZ over another nation. Doing so is an act of war. The Unites States has as much right to declare a NFZ over Syria as the Russians have to declare a NFZ over Ukraine.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

There was a magnetic survey aircraft working the area. Before they took off, they set up a reference antenna:

With this control box:

I don't know what they're looking for or who is paying them to do it. I didn't get a close look at the airplane, but it was a cream-colored Navajo with Canadian registration. Didn't see them set up the antenna, another aircraft owner told me about it.

I've sat through some traffic dockets, now and then, and while I've seen defendants argue selective enforcement to the judges, I've never seen a judge give it any weight. When you get down it it, it's arguing "no shit, I'm guilty, but so were those other guys and you didn't nab them! No faaaiiirrrr!"

I don't know how such administrative proceedings go, but if that's the best argument that his lawyer has, he had better be planning on a new career.

Not going to happen, folks. Not now, not in the far foreseeable future. There is nothing about a gun that isn't replicatable, these days, with a set of decent shop tools. Making ammunition requires some knowledge of basic chemistry. Look, for example, at the Sten gun, a weapon designed mainly of sheet metal. Get a steel or even heavy brass rod or bar stock, drill it out, and you've got the barrel. If you're not worried about using it much beyond room-clearing ranges (or you don't care), it doesn't even have to be rifled.

Beyond that, the sheer quantity of guns in private hands means that tens of millions wouldn't be turned in. Americans are not like the Brits or the Aussies, passing a law does not mean people will obey it. If that were so, we'd be using the metric system today.

Didn't Prohibition, as well as the Futile War on Drugs have taught us anything?

The cops, from CBP and DEA (motto: "What Stinking Constitution?") down to the local po-po can't keep drugs off the streets. Over four decades of being able to track guns back to their original sellers and purchasers haven't done much to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Using a gun in a violent crime is a Federal beef, but like a lot of other laws, that one rarely seems to be enforced.

But I digress.

Arguing for confiscation of all firearms will make it impossible for any negotiation. Why would the people on my side enter into discussions with someone whose bottom line is "we want it all"?

Then, how would it be possible? You'd need to change the Constitution. Which requires 3/4ths of the states to agree. If 13 states don't agree, an amendment is dead. You can probably name states that would never ratify such an amendment right off the top of your head. Even if you got over that hurdle, you'd have to send raiding parties into millions of homes and likely dig up millions of acres of land looking for stashed weaponry.

All that assumes, of course, that there would be no opposition to the confiscations. There would be. There would be on a multi-state level. And it takes no great leap of prognostication to foretell what would happen next.

They are all pirates and criminals. They figure that if people need a drug, they'll pay what it takes and do whatever it takes to get it; a marketing strategy identical to dealers of meth, heroin and crack cocaine.

There once were people involved in the process who genuinely cared about the health of the public and saw it as their mission to develop new medicines to save lives. Most of those folks are long since retired or dead. Now, they're just bespoke-suit-wearing pirates. It wouldn't matter to them what they were selling, as long as they could make an unconscionable amount of money doing it.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Maybe it's just my quirk, but I've made it a practice to stay away from private businesses that run their customers through metal detectors. If the place can be that dangerous, my feeling is that I don't need to be there.

Two men did 112 years ago today. Unlike other would-be inventors, who later claimed to have flown first and then did nothing, the Wright Brothers began, slowly, to refine their invention into a practical device. They didn't get there, none of the Wright machines were utilitarian to any great degree. But they pointed the way and others made it so.

When my grandmother was a little girl, she was told by her uncle George that she would livelong enough to see men fly. Everyone in the family thought George was nuts.

Grandma lived long enough to fly in a 727 and to see men walk on the Moon.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Putting a drop of oil here and there on the trigger mechanism helped a lot with the trigger pull. It's not target-light, but this is a service pistol. There's the usual amount of takeup that one would expect on a military weapon, but the break is

Might spring for some better sights, though.

What is odd is the safety, it's an older style and no ambidextrous. The right side of the frame has an arc of wear in front of the safety axis pin. The frame has a little bearing surface that a newer style safety would have ridden on. Somebody in the past had to have replaced the safety lever. Which might suggest that the gun had been issued to someone who knew something about using and caring for firearms.

It's Israeli surplus, marked with a small Star of David on the other side. The interior of the barrel is in fine shape. It's been carried a lot and apparently shot some, judging by the breech face. Lockup is solid. The trigger isn't gritty, but it is a little heavy.

Field-stripping and a bit of oil is in the cards, as it seems a little dry. Then it will be off to the range.

That torture was authorized by our government and perpetrated by government actors has been known for more than a decade, but only now, with the prospect that the GOP won't win the White House for at least another eight years, do those fuckers get around to denouncing torture.

What the fuck? Did it not occur to those jerkoffs on the editorial board that the soldiers at Abu Ghraib weren't copying off what they had seen done by working torturers? Have they not paid any attention to the sheer weight of documentation that torture was authorized at the highest level? For it was clear to even the most casual of observers that torture was being employed in our name.

Has it really taken this long for the Times to comprehend that Ashcroft wasn't talking about place-settings for a state dinner?

Color me "completely unimpressed" with the editorial bravery of the New York Times. But hey, should we have expected anything less from the Paper of Record for Warmongerers? (Never let it be forgotten that the Times functioned as the useful idiots of the Iraq War Lobby.)

Expect some sharp-eyed Senator to figure out that the Army could just buy more M9s for less than half the cost per unit. When that happens, the "modular handgun project" will be as dead as most of the Army's other procurement programs in recent memory.

Why would an "advanced civilization" 1,500 light-years away from Earth be beaming laser signals at us? How would they know that this planet is inhabited, let alone has a civilization that could receive such signals? At that distance, the earliest we could expect them to notice that the Earth is inhabited and then send a signal our would be some time in the 48th Century, if they could notice a change in atmospheric CO2 levels, or the 50th Century, if they detected RF emissions.

Beyond that, who knows in what form an advanced civilization might communicate? Analog RF is rapidly falling out of favor; to somebody in 1955, a digital signal would sound like random noise.

Finally, why the hell would we want to attract the attention of any advanced civilization? Our history of two civilizations interacting doesn't inspire optimism. A very advanced civilization might regard us as vermin with a potential to be dangerous, and you can guess how things would go from there.

Monday, December 14, 2015

A lot of that increase has come at the expense of Ben Carson, whose campaign is essentially rudderless(self-launching video alert, turn your speakers off). Ted Cruz and Masrco Rubio are the only other ones polling in double digits.

The rest are polling at approval levels only seen by Congress, genital warts and Ebola.

The rationale behind the systems is that in an accident, especially a one-car accident, the driver and other occupants may not be able to call for help. Such accidents are not unheard of. At the least, EMS goes sooner if the car calls for help.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Jake began waking up from a nap when he heard me futzing around with a camera:

He developed a urinary tract infection that took two attempts to treat. A followup appointment today with a piss test showed that he's back to normal. But he's now on Royal Canin SO urinary health dry food. The vet gave me a sample of Science Diet urinary tract dry food, which he wouldn't touch.

This situation rests on the shoulders of the Clinton Administration, which entered into talks with the Baltic nations about them joining NATO, and with the Bush Administration, which signed the deal in 2004.

For the casual observer may wonder why it took the running of a series of war games to show that the Baltics are damn near impossible to defend. One might think that all it should have taken was to look at a fucking map.

The planners, faced with the inability to muster enough forces (and to keep them supplied, a topic that is almost never mentioned in the press), are talking about the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

That is insanity on a very great scale.

For the nukes would have to be detonated over Baltic territory. Using them against Russian forces on Russian territory is asking for a larger nuclear response. The Russians aren't going to say: "Oh, they nuked us, but those were tactical nukes." No, Gentle Readers, they are going to take that as an attack on the motherland and if there is anything more sacred in the Russian Oligarchy than money and power, it is the motherland, the Rodina.

The Russians will regard a nuclear weapon being detonated on their soil in the same way that we would.

While that's critically important, what HondaJet needs now is the production certificate. Until they get that, an FAA inspector or a designated rep must sign off the airworthiness of each airplane. That, for a jet, is a costly endeavor.

None of this should be much of a surprise. The Palestinians haven't had their shit together for a very long time. If Fatah wasn't corrupt before the Israelis largely drew back from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they became so soon afterwards.

The Palestinians have been unable coalesce since, under pressure from the idiots in charge of the last American administration, they held elections eight years ago. Hamas won the election, Fatah refused to recognize that, a Saudi-orchestrated "national unity" coalition feel apart in a matter of weeks and, to the extent that a "two state solution" exists, it's the Palestinians in two separate states whose governments would be at war with each other, if they shared a border.

But the rest of the world has its own problems and, to the Gulf States, the Iranians are a serious problem and they're willing to ally, formally or not, with other nations hostile to Iran. And if this is a surprise to anyone, then go look at who were our allies in the European Theatre in the Second World War.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

I don't need a Browning High Power. Hell, I don't even shoot semi automatics all that well. I very much prefer revolvers. But I have always liked the looks of one, and it is, pretty much, John M Browning's last masterpiece.

The airplanes all have Icelandic registration prefixes. A quick check of the Icelandic aircraft registry shows no results for any of them. Which may mean nothing, as some countries may not list all registered aircraft for whatever reason they seem fit.

Whether a no-account outfit just dumped them there or if they were airplanes used by spooks which have outlived their usefulness is open to speculation.

Which puts the GOP in a bit of a bind: Do they continue to pile on Trump and push him out, taking the risk that he will pull a Perot and effectively hand the presidency to the Democrats? Or do they tolerate, nay, embrace Trump's rhetoric, hope that he will flame out and that a significant percentage of the electorate won't punish the GOP for their eagerness to include a fascist?

Now here's a crazy twist: What if the Trump candidacy has been a case of a ratfucking that has spun out of control?

Trump conceivably could have gotten into the race to both boost his standing as a conservative commentator and to pressure the other candidates to say things that could be used against them by Hillary Clinton. He got a lot of mileage and publicity out of his birtherism, maybe he was hoping to build on that to boost his visibility. It's been pretty clear that The Donald has, for most of his career, followed the old saying: "I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right." He'd get a lot of free publicity, his friend Hillary would have ammunition for the general election, it'd be a win-win for him.

Only now, it's out of control. In a quest to stay at the top of the polls, Trump has been saying more and more things that are batshit crazy: Forcibly deport over ten million people. Build a wall along the Mexican border and make the Mexicans pay for it. Register all Muslims. Keep all Muslims, even American citizens, from entering the country. He's approved of the detainment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. He's drawn parallels between his idea of banning Muslims from FDR's refusing to admit Jewish refugees during the war (effectively sending them to death at the hands of the Germans).

He's gone crazier and crazier, picking up speed like a massive avalanche of insanity-fueled racism. It'd eventually going to damage his brand; people may end up as eager to stay at a Trump property as they would to stay at the Tojo Hotel and Casino.

Avalanches eventually run out of steam. But they can leave a lot of damage behind. The Trumpalanche will likely bury him. It may bury the GOP for a long time. And there is a non-zero chance that it could bury the country.

I understand the argument. But that is playing around with dynamite and hoping that one escapes the blast.

First off, there is a non-zero chance that the GOP's nominee would be Donald Trump. Trump is a fascist. That is not an insult in this case, it's a statement of fact.

Trump has a history of not taking no for an answer. He will use every tool at his disposal to achieve his goal. He will proclaim that as one of the three branches of government, that he has the power to do what he wants. Even moreso than Andrew Jackson, he would likely disregard any court orders or injunctions with some pithy observation of how the Federal cops and the military answer to him, not to the judges.

Some of the other GOPers are only a little less crazy. Rafael T. Cruz is smarter than Trump, but that seems to be his only distinction. His track record (such as it is) in the Senate is one of a man who operates on the principle of "my way or no way". Indeed, his entire adult history, from college to today, is one of being an arrogant bully, convinced of his own superiority and unwilling to entertain any dissenting opinion on any subject. As much as Hillary, Cruz would roast live puppies on a spit and eat them if doing so resulted in a net increase in votes.

However, it is at least probable that, if a President Cruz lost an election or a court case, he'd abide by the outcome. I have so such belief about Trump as president.

Of course, he also advocated denying people the right to own guns based on a sooper-seekrit government watch list, a list that has included toddlers, politicalactivists and even a U. S. Senator. Which sounds a bit like giving in to fear, at least to me.

Still, the base premise of Obama's argument is wrong. Freedom may be more powerful than fear, but over the long run, and often, only over the very long run. For the history of humanity, both in this country and around the world, is clearly that over the short run, fear is far more powerful.

Woodrow Wilson's criminalization of dissent during the First World War. "Lynch law". The Palmer Raids. The internment of Japanese-Americans. The Red Scares and the Black List. The judicial murder of Ethel Rosenberg. The War on Drugs. The "USA Patriot Act".

In Europe, the far right, running on a platform of fear, is making gains across the continent. Donald Trump's campaign is largely rooted in fear of, well, everything. Vladimir Putin's success is, in part, rooted in appeals to Russian xenophobia. The Chinese government plays the fear card like a well-tuned fiddle.

Fear sells, plain and simple. You can talk about freedom and liberty until you're blue in the face, but if the other guy connects with the voters on a fear-based platform, you're going to have a very hard time overcoming that.

And then, once freedom is restricted or liberty is curtailed based on fear, history shows that people have a devil of a time getting it back.

"Freedom is more powerful that fear" is only true if people are willing to stand up to fear, and take the tarring of being called "terrorist symps" or the like. Damn few have the stones for that. Remember, only one senator had the spine to vote against the Patriot Act: Russ Feingold.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

I don't know about you, but I certainly don't recall reading about or seeing coverage about a hundred or more mass shootings. And the reason that neither you nor I have, Gentle Readers, is because that number is bullshit.

If a drug deal goes sour in Chicago or East St. Louis, the parties commence to shooting as an alternative form of dispute resolution and four of the clowns get winged, that's a "mass shooting" to the gun banners. Three guys bust into a house and the homeowner caps all three, that's a "mass shooting" by the criteria of the Obama Administration (and heaven help us if said homeowner has an Evil Black Rifle-- pearls will be clutched).

"355 mass shootings" is a lie. Worse than a lie, it is deliberate propaganda.

You want evidence that the gun-banners cannot be trusted to have an open and honest conversation: Think "355 mass shootings".

Only the 12th (President and Vice-President from same party), 23rd (DC voters can vote for a presidential candidate) and 26th (18 year-olds can vote) Amendments were ratified faster.

A little-known fact is that that many of the people who backed the Repeal had also backed Prohibition. They backed Repeal because of the damage that they saw Prohibition doing to the rule of law and respect fo the authorities.

So some guy gets into a beef during a holiday party, he leaves in a huff and comes back an hour or so later, dressed in black, with two of his friends, and shoots up the party? "My boss gave me shit, let's go kill them all!" "Yeah, let's!" "Dude, let's go do this!"

General relativity changed the view of gravity. Before Einstein, gravity was believed to be a force-- objects pulled on one another. Einstein theorized that gravity was a consequence of the behavior of spacetime.

There isn't a "gravity well" per se, more like a funnels with curving sides caused by the mass of objects bending the fabric of spacetime-- like the way a rubber trampoline's surface is distorted by heavy objects on the trampoline. If you roll a marble across the surface of the trampoline, the marble may roll into the curvature of the trampoline caused by a heavy object. If the marble is moving fact enough, the curvature will change the path of the marble. If not, it will roll into the curved surface and come to rest next to the heavier object.

At least, that's how I comprehend it.

The Nobel Committee didn't award a Nobel to Einstein for any of his work on special or general relativity. They gave him one in 1921 for theorizing the existence of photons in 1905. Why the Nobel Committee refused to recognize his work on the theory of relativity, even after it had been proven to be true by experiments, may be wrapped up in interwar European antisemitism.

Thanks to European antisemitism, as manifested in the Holocaust, the necessity for physicists and chemists to be fluent in German was eliminated. After the war, articles in German scientific journals increasingly became published in English, as both the authors and editors came to realize that was the way to ensure their articles were widely read.

The mayor's protestations that he was waiting until the investigation was finished before releasing the video is bullshit. As I wrote last week, try to think of another situation where it would take prosecutors over a year to bring charges against a person who pumped bullets into a prostrate victim, after the prosecutors had video of the murder.

The Party of Hatred at work. Twelve years ago, the Bushies whipped of fear of gay marriage to boost turnout for that election. In the 1980s, they used "welfare queens" and Willie Horton as their kindling for stoking hatred.

And yes, it is in the cultural memory of my people what it's like to be used as the designated whipping post for budding fascists.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Based on the Paris experience, I'd look for those bullet-shields to be more widely distributed among police. Without them, the first French cops to enter the Bataclan theater would have been cut to pieces.

I've written for years about the Patriot Act and the erosion of freedom in this land. There's probably more there than you will ever care to read.

Sadly, it seems that as long as the attention of the cops is directed at those people, whomsoever that may be, most Americans are just fine with sacrificing their freedoms and liberties for a fig-leaf promise of security. One political party may nominate an outright fascist as its candidate next year.

But it doesn't seem to matter, really. A candidate might promise to bring about smaller government or even follow the Constitution, but as soon as they walk into the Oval Office, they turn into Smeagol.

Our country has been corrupted into a police state. Most people are fine with that, it seems.

So we might as well elect The Donald and get it over with.

Freedom: 1775-2016. She had a pretty good run, for awhile, but she got sick in 1971 and became terminally ill in 2001.

It take no great feat of imagination to suppose that a Turkish jet that puts so much as a wingtip into Syrian airspace will be blown out of the sky. The Russians will proclaim that they were only defending the sovereignty of their ally, Syria. They'll claim that they gave the Turkish jet notice. The Turks will deny everything and point to how their jet crashed in Turkey itself.

Which, as you no doubt have already concluded, is the storyline of the shooting down of the Russian jet, only with the names reversed.

At the same time, expect some kinetic urban renewal from the Russians, directed at the people who killed the Russian pilot in his parachute.

In the meantime, all across NATO, governments are scrutinizing their copies of their NATO treaties and trying to find wriggle room to get them from having to go to war over this. For we are on the verge of getting into a shooting war, one in which the main belligerents on both sides have nuclear weapons.

The newspaper yesterday was thicker than a typical Sunday edition, crammed with sales flyers. I have no intention of going anywhere near a shopping center until my Sunday grocery run. I think it was last year that there was a fistfight at the local Walmart on Black Friday morning.

I can understand why the Puritans* banned the Christmas celebration, since then as now, it has more to do with commerce and partying than anything religious. The celebration of Christmas is more a continuation of Saturnalia.

Without the sales of the Christmas season, it's probably fair to say that a good number of retail establishments would shutter for good. So Tom Lehrer's song, which started out nearly sixty years ago as satire, is now possibly the most honest Christmas sone you'll hear.
__________________________________* They were pretty much the Christian equivalent of ISIS, back in their day.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

And yes, Judge James Hannon was indeed blind and so he didn't look at the color photos taken by Officer Obanhein. Guthrie and his friend, Rick Robbins, were each fined $25 and they did have to pick up all of the garbage.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

I can't imagine, right now, how frustrated Rick Santorum must feel. For decades, Republicans have operated on an informal basis of whoever comes in second gets to run the next time around. Reagan lost to Ford, Bush lost to Reagan, Dole lost to Bush I, Buchanan lost to Dole. For reasons I've forgotten, Buchanan dropped out early for `00. McCain then lost to Bush II, Romney lost to McCain and Santorum lost to Romney. By that history, it's Santorum's turn.

Note that the shooter was on the "rubber gun squad" for a year before the indictment. It's hard to conceive of another situation where a gunman might shoot a person sixteen times, including shooting the victim in the back as the victim lay on the ground and then it took the prosecutors a year to file charges, unless the killer was a cop.

A cynical observer might conclude that the cop would have been left there, if not restored to full duty, if the City had been able to keep the video secret. For it sure seems like it was only when the video was going to be released that the prosecutors brought charges.

You might remember him, he'stheweasel who raised the price of an old drug from $13.50 a pop to $750. When the shit hit the fan over that, he promised that his company would lower the price, soon, any day, you betcha, and provide some free samples to hospitals.

This is more of a follow-up to an earlier story. Coke said that its money was an "unrestricted gift", but they sure got into the nitty-gritty with the bribe-takers, to the point of ensuring that their logo didn't have any blue in it.

But I'm not sure that Coke is the main evildoer in this story. The researchers may have approached Coke with a proposal, which makes them different from a whore at a truck-stop only in degree.

Coke essentially says that, having been caught buying off researchers, they'll stop doing it. At least this time. Their "Chief Health and Science Officer" has resigned-- ayup. Coke having a senior executive working on health issues would be almost as laughable as Budweiser or RJ Reynolds having a similar position on their company flowcharts.

The Turks will now, no doubt, go whining to NATO that they had to defend their sovereignty and such. But the Turks threw the first punch. Putin does not seem to be the sort of national leader to let such slights go unanswered.

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